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it reminds me of communism and of the book 1984, with nepolitan as lenin/Big Brother. I am not sure, but i believe that the writer of animal farm also wrote 1984.(tell me if iam wrong)Overall,i thought it was a dumb movie,the british accents really got annoying, and the animals(especially the damn sheep) made me frustrated that they kept believing the pigs new laws/rules written on the side of the barn. i give it a big thumbs down.

Animal Farm had nothing to do with any of the books we've read this year. I can't name any books that might follow the story line as Animal Farm, but their are books that follow the same kind of sequence. Overthrow reigning government, the farmer because they can do better; life starts off great after reigning power is overthrown, then new power, the pigs, start to become power hungry and do everything in their favor and not of people's or animal's for that matter; and have a rebellion or people or animals leave.

I do not think that the movie Animal Farm that we watched in class can be related to any of the things we did this year without stretching the main points of one story or another. I do think that the movie was intersting and had a good point to it. I understand why the brit lit. had to read this book over the summer it is interesting and yet can teach a valuable lesson.

I agree with Zach, the only book I think Animal Farm is similar to is Brave New World. The Animals in this movie are trying to find a new life away from Humans, and I think Brave New World has that same kind of theme.

I don't really see where the connection was to anything that we have read this year. It was very interesting to say the least. It was an animal version of Hitler's story, which I found pretty boring. This movie just did not appeal to me. I think that it could have been made a lot more interesting with a better script.

I think Animal Farm reminds me of Brave New World in a different light. It is dealing with the same struggles and issues that the people had to deal with living in the World State. Always being watched, having to obey these rediculous rules and living a life sometimes we dont want to. Just like the dog was kind of like Bernard in the sense that they hated living by what society wanted them to live like. Going against the grain.

Even though I feel that animal farm doesnt have anything to do with what I have read over the last four years, I do feel that it relates to Hitler's Nazi Germany. It shows how one person starts blaming an innocent person and then he gets all the power, and takes over the society.

To be completely honest, at first I had trouble seeing how "Animal Farm" fit in with anything else that we have been reading in class, but the more I think about it the more I realize that it is just like the other utopian societies that we have been reading about all year long. Animals trying to find the perfect community is very similar to a futuristic, perfect worl, or a post-apocolyptic father and son searching for peace.

I did not like the movie. I found it to be very slow and not very good. The acting, pecial effects, and over all story line was bad. I had a tough time following along with the movie and following along with what this had to do with what we were talking about. I think a new movie next year is in oder.

Animal far m didnt reallly have to deal with anything we read this year I mean gaining power and holding your own grown is an everyday life thing for everyone but other than that i dont see any comparison with anything we read

I thought that Animal Farm was ok, but i could not relate it to anything we have read in class. instead the m0vie had alot to do with people of other races,age, and gender and how they can be descriminated against.

I agree with Jacob Marshall on this. Animal Farmwas written by the same author as 1984, and it is supposed to show how a tyrant can take over power by promising a better life. Similar to many brutal men, such as Lenen and Hitler, Napoleon was a brutal "ruler" of sorts.

Animal Farm in my opinion didn't have anything to do with what we've read this year. Although one could make a case that it could be a metaphorical precursor to the events in Gattaca and Brave New World. Though the leaders in Gattaca and Brave New World weren't as overbearing about there power and didn't eventually die out.

No, it really had nothing to do with anything that we read in our class this year. I think that the story itself was more than just about a bunch of funny animals coming up with their own form of government, but it really didn't relate to anything we read.

I don't think Animal Farm is related to anything we have read in our class this year, but I know I've learned stuff that has to do with the book in the past. Animal Farm is like one giant metaphor for Stalinism and the pigs are the Communists who tried to rule everything in a very bad way. This reminds me of things I've learned in my history classes in the past years.

I don't like Animal Farm at all, I think it's one of the worst stories ever. Maybe if you were a very anti communist person in the late 40s and 50s you would find it funny. I doesn't really have anything to do with anything we read this year.